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Eva Green

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Eva Green

Eva Green in "Casino Royale"

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Birth Date: July 5, 1980.
Place of Birth: Paris, France.
Family Facts: Eva Green has a twin sister. Her father is a Swedish dentist. Her mother is French actress Marlène Jobert.
Debut role: Isabelle in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers.
Photo Gallery: Visit our Eva Green photo gallery and our The Dreamers photo gallery.
Bond Girl: Eva Green is the new Bond girl to starring opposite the latest agent 007, Daniel Craig, in Casino Royale. She plays the enticing Vesper Lynd.
Biography: A native of Paris, Eva Green spent three years at the Eva St Paul School before attending a London workshop at the Webber Douglas acting school. Her theater experience includes Didier Long's Jealousie 3 Fax and Gerard Deshartes' Turcarcet.

The Dreamers is Green’s first film. She plays Isabelle, Theo's sister, and shares his love of cinema. In 2003 she starred in the film Arsene Lupin for director Jean-Paul Salomé. She had a leading role in in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven opposite Liam Neeson and Orlando Bloom.

After an extensive search, Eva Green was named the new Bond girl. She stars opposite the latest agent 007, Daniel Craig, in Casino Royale. Green plays the enticing role of Vesper Lynd. She has also been cast as an exotic bird smuggler in the French/German/Russian thriller Zhivaya Riba and an adaptation of the Paul Auster novel In the Country of Last Things.

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